Contact Information:
Dr. W. M. Robertson
MTSU Box X-116
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Ph. (615) 898-5837
FAX. (615) 898-5303
 
 
 

Welcome to the web presence of Dr. William Robertson. I am a Professor of Physics at Middle Tennessee State University. If you're a student looking for course web pages follow the teaching link.  This link also takes you to my Physics of Music pages which are of more general interest as they include some on-line audio demonstrations and my popular Physics of the Didjeridu homepage (including my BBC World Service Radio interview).  If you are intersted in my acoustics work you can check out my YouTube video that covers both my Physics of Music course and my sound faster than light experiment (not as crazy as it sounds!).

My research interests cover a broad range of subjects in optics and acoustics.  Some key areas of current interest are acoustic and photonic band gap materials, fast and slow wave phenomena (including superluminal sound), surface electromagnetic excitations including surface plasmons and surface waves on photonic crystals, label-free biosensing, and the design of innovative diffractive optics. 

The Personal link takes you to a variety of pages about me, my wonderful wife Sharon, and the web pages of our faboo pooches  Blaze and Rita. Fun stuff is not otherwise categorizable fun things. Publications is a list of my publications. Links is a collection of interesting web links. Note that moving your mouse over my picture lets you celebrate (a) my national origin (Canada) and (b) my interest in large mammals.

Enjoy my pages. Drop me e-mail if you have any questions or suggestions.